| 09.00 |
Registration and café d'accueil |
| 09.30 |
Reports from breakout sessions : IPR in a nutshell | what's the road ahead ? |
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Rapporteur Stream 1: Bruce Alexander — President — CIPA (The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents) (United Kingdom) |
Rapporteur Stream 2: Walter Holzer — President — epi (The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office) (Austria) |
Rapporteur Stream 3: Eugen Popp — Präsident — Deutsche Patentanwaltskammer (Germany) |
II.A. PROFESSIONALS' EXPECTATIONS |
| 10.00 |
- Perspectives: what does European industry need from the Patent System in Europe?
Mike Barlow — Head of Patent and Agreements — BP International (United Kingdom)
Jean-François Serrier — General Manager, Intellectual Assets Management — Solvay (Belgium)
The industry perspectives
Erik Nooteboom — Head of the Industrial Property Unit - DG Internal Market — European Commission
The European Commission perspective
Patrice Vidon — President — Compagnie Nationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (France)
The practionner perspective |
| 11.00 |
Questions from the floor |
| 11.10 |
Refreshments |
| 11.30 |
- Community Trade Mark
Madrid protocol: the impact of EU and US joining | Implications for users | Extension of CTM to the new European countries
Benoît Barme — Trademarks and Models Director — Danone (France)
Patrick Theunis — Head of Intellectual Property — Agfa Gevaert (Belgium)
Yannick Chalme — General Counsel — L'Oréal (France)
Ernesto Rubio — Assistant Director General, Sector of Trademarks, Industrial Designs & Geographical Indications — WIPO (Switzerland)
Gerhard Bauer — Chief Trademark Counsel — DaimlerChrysler (Germany) |
| 12.30 |
Prelunch debate: roadmap for decisive issues facing the european IP framework — immediate actions and long-term vues
Professor Alain Pompidou — President — European Patent Office |
| 12.45 |
Lunch |
II.B. WORKSHOPS |
Time
slots |
Stream 1
IP Recent Developments |
Stream 2
Patents |
Stream 3
Legal |
| 14.00 |
MADRID PROTOCOL VERSUS COMMUNITY TRADEMARK
Compared analysis of advantages and drawbacks of the two systems
Detlef Schennen — OHMI (Spain)
Cécile Guillemard — Senior Counsel Trademarks — Procter & Gamble
Moderator: Jean Pire — Senior Partner — Gevers (Belgium) |
PATENTABILITY OF BUSINESS METHODS
- Enlarging the scope of possible patents
- How to protect non-technical inventions ?
- American practice, European orientations
Frank Cuypers — Head of Intellectual Property — Swiss Re (Switzerland)
Wayne P. Sobon — Director of IP — Accenture (USA)
Cecilia O. Lofters — Senior IP Counsel — General Electric Company (USA)
Moderator: Christian Derambure — Partner — Breese Derambure Majerowicz (France) |
EUROPEAN MOCK TRIAL
With, among others
Morag Macdonald — Partner IP Practice — Bird & Bird (UK)
Elisabeth Belfort — President of the 3rd Chamber — TGI de Paris (France)
Gabriella Musculo — Judge — Court of Rome (Italy)
Robert Van Peursem — Judge — the District Court of The Hague (Netherlands)
David Young QC — Deputy High Court Judge, Deputy Patents County Court Judge (UK)
Questions
- Interim relief - could you get it?
- Could you get cross border relief?
- Procedure
- When would it be passing/off unfair competitor?
- When would it be infringement of Community design right?
- How would the patent validity issue affect things?
Debates
Deliberation |
| 15.00 |
MEDIATION & ARBITRATION
An increasing number of IP disputes are being resolved through mediation and arbitration:
- Two leading European companies report on their experiences as parties in mediation and arbitration procedures
- A WIPO Arbitrator presents a WIPO Arbitration case study
Michael Leathes — Head of Intellectual Property — British American Tobacco (United Kingdom)
Piet Schalkwijk — Director of Intellectual Property — Akzo Nobel NV (Netherlands)
David Perkins — Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy (United Kingdom)
Moderator: Ignacio de Castro Llamas — Head of Information and External Relations Section — WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (Switzerland) |
THE NEW TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BLOCK EXEMPTION REGULATION: WHAT LIES BEHIND?
Patents and Know-How licensing accross Europe
- Impact of modernisation of the competition rules on technology licensing
- The structure of the TTBER
- Examination of the hardcore restrictions
- The risks
John Nevard — Senior Patent Counsel — Unipath Limited (United Kingdom)
Lucas Peperkorn — Directorate-General for Competition — European Comission
David Squires — Director — Deloitte & Touche LLP
Moderator: Duncan Curley — author of "Intellectual Property Licences and Technology Transfer" (Sept. 2004) (United Kingdom) |
| 16.00 |
GLOBAL TRANSFER PRICING APPLIED TO INTANGIBLE ASSETS
- Developments in the field of transfer pricing in the European region
- The impact of Intellectual Property on transfer prices within a multionational company
- Case study with respect to recent cases involving transfer pricing and Intellectual Property
Dave Rutges — European leader of KPMG Global Transfer Pricing Services, partner with KPMG Meijburg & Co. (Netherlands)
Jaap Reyneveld — Senior manager of KPMG Global Transfer Pricing Services (Netherlands)
Dirk van Stappen — Partner — KPMG (Belgium), European business members of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum — European Commission |
PATENT POOLS: THE RIGHT TOOL TO VALUE YOURS ASSETS
- Greatest cash generator for revenues?
- From portfolios to patent pools
- Perimeter and structure
- Beware of the limits!
Laurent Villaume — CEO — Quantum Optical and President — Optical Disk Association (France)
Miguel Pena-Castillot — Directorate Competition — European Commission
Moderator: Philippe Le Clech — Head of Development & Member of Intellectual Assets Management & Strategy Deparment — Breese Derambure Majerowicz |
ANTI-COUNTERFEIT LITIGATION
- State-of-the-art practices
- Identifying and locating infringements : evaluate the legal validity of the technical devices of protection
- How to succeed in seizing counterfeit goods : The new regulation, Global actions, Trial and compensation
- Protection of brand in digital world, Internet increased the phenomenon of counterfeit ?
Marc Frisanco — Chief Legal Officer — Group Richemont (Switzerland)
Lucy Nichols — Global Director of IPR, Brand Protection — Nokia (Finland)
Georgina Evans — Vice President and Trade Mark Counsel — GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Moderator: Marius Michael Schneider — European & Benelux Trade Mark & Design Attorney — Gevers (Belgium) |
